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In a long-anticipated but now somewhat anticlimactic ruling, the California Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana on Wednesday decided not to decide whether localities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries…

Asthmatic medical marijuana patient Chris Diaz sits in jail in Brownwood, Texas, facing up to life in prison for a half ounce of marijuana and three grams of hash. Quadraplegic medical marijuana patient Chris Cain…

The Marshall City Council is using its six-month moratorium on medical marijuana businesses to research the sticky issue and develop standards for local pot proprietors.
At a workshop Monday, the council decided it would seek input from medical mari…

Despite a city ban in effect since 2006, a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary has been operating for three weeks in a shopping center with a movie theater and a doughnut shop.
The opening of Hollister-based Purple Cross Rx at 225 N.  Mercey Spring…

Traverse City, MI — New regulations that dictate when and where city residents can grow and distribute medical marijuana could be changed if problems arise.
City commissioners on Monday gave final approval to a new ordinance that regulates l…

Welcome to Oaksterdam, California’s newest, least orthodox tourist attraction. Welcome, possibly, to the future of a multibillion-dollar business around legal marijuana.
Spread over an eight-block area of formerly disused downtown Oakland, the se…

From the Family of Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes
Van Nuys, California, August, 2010
Dear Friends of Hemp and Cannabis,
Our father, Jack Herer, was a man of leadership, compassion and idealism. He worked relentlessly for decades to achieve his dream of legalizing Cannabis hemp in all its forms, personal, medical and industrial. He [...]

Jovan Jackson has been cutting men’s hair since he was a teenager.  But a few years back, he decided to take a sharp detour from the barber trade and try a different vocation.
A medical marijuana patient himself, he joined with a small group of …

The Peace of Sunshine store off the main drag in Catonsville has lately been making more than half its weekly sales in K2, a “legal pot” known also as “spice.” But owner Lawrence J.  Zwick says he has sold his last bag.  As…

A majority of Californians continue to voice their support for Prop. 19 — which would eliminate penalties for the private possession and use of marijuana by adults, and allow local governments to regulate retail cannabis production and sales.
According to the most recent Survey USA poll (conducted August 9-11), 50 percent of likely voters in California [...]